kara

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Czernavoda is Sclavic, and means black water; in Turkish, kara su; even as Tzernebock means black god; and Belgrade, or Belograd, means the white town; even as Bielebock, or Bielebog, means the white god.

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  • According to the scriptures, after the long silence at the end of the last age, out of the deluge gradually rustling movements gather momentum and a powerful sacred sound Om or Aum emerged from the three syllable A-kara (shape), U-kara (shapeless), M-akara (neither shape nor shapeless but existing) … hence Aum or Om. Jayalakshmi and her students depicted the five elements that reside in the human body. —  Zee News : India National
  • Where the brothers all live separate the rule will of course not apply Footnote 216: i. e. according to the Ratnákara, a son born after his degradation from cast Footnote 217: scil. —  Hindu Law and Judicature from the Dharma-Sástra of Yájnavalkya
  • The engulfing cloth was thin and through it Brion could see the outlines of the Disan's abdomen and rib cage, the clear location of the great nerve ganglion It was the death blow of kara-te. —  Planet of the Damned
  • Czernavoda is Sclavic, and means black water; in Turkish, kara su; even as Tzernebock means black god; and Belgrade, or Belograd, means the white town; even as Bielebock, or Bielebog, means the white god. —  The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro"
  • The name is derived from the Sanskrit Lauha-kara>_, a worker in iron. —  The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala
 

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